Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local CBers call Nickel City could not help wondering why they and their rural neighbors had been selected for the vengeful Winter of '77's most punishing assault so far. In fact, Buffalo's location on a narrow peninsula, where it catches moisture-laden winds off Lake Erie, contributes to its singular attraction for snow. Since fall, Buffalo has been smothered by an incredible 14 feet of snowfall. Last week drifts as high as 30 feet buried the roads in the area, paralyzing all business and movement. Winds up to 85 m.p.h. generated a numbing chill factor...
...worst blizzard in the city's history had howled with little warning across Lake Erie and trapped 17,000 workers in their downtown offices. Some 5,000 automobiles were abandoned by their owners when all traffic stopped; police in the suburban town of Lancaster counted 66 cars in just one two-mile stretch of roadway, some with the snow piled over their roofs. Drivers sought shelter wherever they could find it. Some 400 motorists and stranded downtown workers slept on chairs and the floors of the Liberty Bank Building...
Lancelot of the Lake. Through Saturday...
Robert Bressen's Lancelot of the Lake is an ideal offering for the cineaste who revels in the romanticizing of the age of heraldry and the Round Table. Yet all the painstaking attention to detail and craftsmanship cannot save the film from deteriorating into a ponderous trek through the medieval Britain of King Arthur, a pedestrian piece of work which fails to justify the necessity of its production...
...woods and across ditches, quickly took its toll. A light covering of snow was soon worn away by early starters. Coarse, rutted ditches caused spills; unexpected rocks forced some sleds to veer into guardrails and trees. One driver was hit by a car; ten others got lost on a lake. At day's end only 172 contestants remained in the race...